CFL 2012 Regular Season: Week 6

Thinking that perhaps Canadians will be gathered around the TV watching the Olympics, or more likely that TSN is so clogged with Olympic programming that the CFL may have been too large a burden to bear, the CFL has gone into its summer vacation mode.

Splitting up the usual four games a week into two games per week over the next two weeks, the first week split by the long weekend.

Week six gets underway in Winnipeg, where the Blue Bombers still savouring their successful staving off of the Eskimos last minute drive last week, will put their winning streak of one on the line tonight against the struggling Montreal Alouettes.

It's a good test for both teams, for the Bombers to see if they have solved a few of their trouble spots of the first four weeks and for Montreal to determine if they can reverse a worrisome trend that has highlighted some of the cracks in the Alouettes line up.

A win for the Bombers would offer up some evidence to the home crowd that all is not lost in the 2012 season, bringing the Bombers even with the Als in the East standings, still within striking distance of first place.

Likewise the Als could improbably find themselves tied for first place in the East with a victory of their own. More importantly though, a win for the Als would serve to quiet some of the concern starting to percolate in Montreal from both the press and the fans.

The weekend wrap up game comes on Monday, when the Argonauts hope to see all those cottage exiles return in time to see them take on the British Columbia Lions.  The Argos have played more consistent football as the season moves forward this year, growing more confident by the week as Ricky Ray begins to get a better understanding of what he has to work with on the Argo offence.

Defensively the Argos are holding the fort, making life difficult for opposing offensive units, as good a test for the Argos defence as they may get comes this weekend with the Lions. Travis Lulay finally unleashed his offence last week in Calgary, a session we're sure the Argos viewed with much interest.

Previews and reviews of both games can be found below

Friday, August 3-- Montreal 36 at Winnipeg 26  29,533
Monday, August 6-- British Columbia 18 at Toronto 9  22,841

Twelve Men Prognostications: Predicted Winners

Winnipeg
British Columbia

Weekly Record

1 - 1

Overall Record

13 correct, 9 wrong